GENUS PAN (Lahi, Hayop)
dir. Lav Diaz, 2020
157 min. Philippines.
In Filipino with English subtitles.

SATURDAY, MAY 6 – 7 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 12 – 7 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 25 – 7 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 28 – 7 PM

Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the sea, the mountains and the forest until they reached their destination. Or did they really reach their cursed place?

“A rigorous, historical-materialist account of how the specific cruelties of past colonial powers have shaped those in the present, combined with a transhistorical view of human nature that suggests that, for all that the names and occupants of a particular place may have changed over the centuries, very little has in terms of humanity’s propensity for exploitation and abuse.”
— Jesse Cumming, Cinema Scope